The latter

Literally none of them have stuck the landing (except maybe Miss Marvel, which I haven’t seen, and maybe Loki). Some have started out with an interesting premise or cool idea, but they’ve all fallen into the silly bullshit She Hulk lampshaded but didn’t actually fix. The only difference with this show is that it’s…

Negotiations will probably ave to resume before you’ll get any nitty gritty on details, but the broad strokes of what SAG AFTRA want are widely reported: to get paid on time, to increase pay, to address income shortfall now that residuals are not a thing on streaming, and some means to protect humans from AI…

I didn’t realize he was writing the scripts, directing the show, AND playing all the roles! A true triple threat

I’m still hoping he turns out to be a Skrull, which would be some silly bullshit ending, but at least it would address this one plot point that’s been bugging me since the beginning of the show. Gravik also made a big deal about new Skrullos being radioactive as well.

The recaps are the best part of the show, as a kind of Lovecraftian epistolary about a narrator descending into madness

Top Quarter of D+ MCU shows is an amazing feat of damning with faint praise

Marginalized, exploited people exist in every industry, including acting.  Labor is labor.

I'm also pretty sure $250/month in restitution isn't going to put much of a dent in that $452 million 

Thanks for explaining how I should feel about characters from shows I never watched and never will

I skipped both of these, though I had some peripheral awareness of who Ahsoka was before Mando season 2; the Maul reveal was genuinely intriguing, the Ahoska stuff less so. The spear episode was one of the highlights of that season.

I almost called Deadpool a corrective when I wrote the comment initially, but thought better of it. This is the third of these movies, and they haven’t really degassed any of the mainline franchises yet

More pastiche than parody, I guess, though you can't do parody right either without a deep abiding affection for the subject matter.

Quod erat Deadpool, baby

I feel like the endless loop of “this time Everything Changes For Real For Serious” is what produced Deadpool in the first place; maybe he's just a natural outgrowth of comics (and associated media).

I do enjoy how the Deadpool movies are little love letters to how gloriously stupid these franchises are and the exact amount of seriousness with which they should be taken 

I would expect no less from a film franchise where the lead shot himself dead before he could make Green Lantern.

Except of course the doctor is still working the following day; SAG member maybe isn’t. It's a precarious existence, and the job of their union to make it less precarious/improve working conditions in whatever way their members want.

It was however, darkly funny that they chose a Star Wars listicle to roll it out on: Star Wars fans are well-known for their relaxed approach to the franchise and canon timelines.

It’s super weird that there’s another push to adapt Narnia; most of the books aren’t very good, you’d have to strip all the allegorical stuff out for wide consumption, and most importantly, they haven’t been popular kids’ books in 30 years or more. If Disney couldn’t make a go of it 15 years ago, I don’t know why…